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Event cameras offer advantages in object detection tasks due to high-speed response, low latency, and robustness to motion blur. However, event cameras lack texture and color information, making open-vocabulary detection particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jinchang Zhang , Zijun Li , Jiakai Lin , Guoyu Lu

CLIP embeddings have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of multimodal applications. However, these high-dimensional, dense vector representations are not easily interpretable, limiting our understanding of the rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Usha Bhalla , Alex Oesterling , Suraj Srinivas , Flavio P. Calmon , Himabindu Lakkaraju

Face recognition is a core task in computer vision designed to identify and authenticate individuals by analyzing facial patterns and features. This field intersects with artificial intelligence image processing and machine learning with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Nhan T. Luu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has drawn increasing attention recently for its transferable visual representation learning. However, due to the semantic gap within datasets, CLIP's pre-trained image-text alignment becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Longtian Qiu , Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Ziyao Zeng , Zilu Guo , Yafeng Li , Guangnan Zhang

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled significant progress in open vocabulary computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection and image segmentation. Some recent works have focused on extending VLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Rohit Gupta , Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan , Ashish Tawari , Son Tran , Mubarak Shah , Benjamin Yao , Trishul Chilimbi

Multimodal learning plays a critical role in e-commerce recommendation platforms today, enabling accurate recommendations and product understanding. However, existing vision-language models, such as CLIP, face key challenges in e-commerce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ramin Giahi , Kehui Yao , Sriram Kollipara , Kai Zhao , Vahid Mirjalili , Jianpeng Xu , Topojoy Biswas , Evren Korpeoglu , Kannan Achan

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a foundation model and has been applied to various vision and multimodal tasks. However, recent works indicate that CLIP falls short in distinguishing detailed differences in images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yinqi Li , Jiahe Zhao , Hong Chang , Ruibing Hou , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Vision-language models like CLIP have shown impressive capabilities in aligning images and text, but they often struggle with lengthy and detailed text descriptions because of their training focus on short and concise captions. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Hyungyu Choi , Young Kyun Jang , Chanho Eom

Until recently, the general corpus of CLIP-type fundamental models has widely explored either the retrieval of short descriptions or the classification of objects in the scene as SINGLE-object image classification task. The same holds for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Advik Sinha , Saurabh Atreya , Aashutosh A , Sk Aziz Ali , Abhijit Das

Vision-language foundation models, represented by Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), have gained increasing attention for jointly understanding both vision and textual tasks. However, existing approaches primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bowen Shi , Peisen Zhao , Zichen Wang , Yuhang Zhang , Yaoming Wang , Jin Li , Wenrui Dai , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian , Xiaopeng Zhang

Training a 3D scene understanding model requires complicated human annotations, which are laborious to collect and result in a model only encoding close-set object semantics. In contrast, vision-language pre-training models (e.g., CLIP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Junbo Zhang , Runpei Dong , Kaisheng Ma

We propose DiffCLIP, a novel vision-language model that extends the differential attention mechanism to CLIP architectures. Differential attention was originally developed for large language models to amplify relevant context while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Bernard Ghanem

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been a celebrated method for training vision encoders to generate image/text representations facilitating various applications. Recently, CLIP has been widely adopted as the vision backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Hong-You Chen , Zhengfeng Lai , Haotian Zhang , Xinze Wang , Marcin Eichner , Keen You , Meng Cao , Bowen Zhang , Yinfei Yang , Zhe Gan

Retail product or packaged grocery goods images need to classified in various computer vision applications like self checkout stores, supply chain automation and retail execution evaluation. Previous works explore ways to finetune deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Muktabh Mayank Srivastava

Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP excel in general multimodal comprehension but often struggle to capture nuanced, context-dependent visual cues. This makes it difficult to distinguish between similar-looking concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yuchen Huang , Zhiyuan Fan , Zhitao He , Sandeep Polisetty , Wenyan Li , Yi R. Fung

The emergence of CLIP has opened the way for open-world image perception. The zero-shot classification capabilities of the model are impressive but are harder to use for dense tasks such as image segmentation. Several methods have proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Monika Wysoczańska , Michaël Ramamonjisoa , Tomasz Trzciński , Oriane Siméoni

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) delivers strong cross modal generalization by aligning images and texts in a shared embedding space, yet it persistently fails at compositional reasoning over objects, attributes, and relations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Ziliang Chen , Tianang Xiao , Jusheng Zhang , Yongsen Zheng , Xipeng Chen

Many vision-language models (VLMs) that prove very effective at a range of multimodal task, build on CLIP-based vision encoders, which are known to have various limitations. We investigate the hypothesis that the strong language backbone in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sho Takishita , Jay Gala , Abdelrahman Mohamed , Kentaro Inui , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Unsupervised large-scale vision-language pre-training has shown promising advances on various downstream tasks. Existing methods often model the cross-modal interaction either via the similarity of the global feature of each modality which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Lewei Yao , Runhui Huang , Lu Hou , Guansong Lu , Minzhe Niu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang , Zhenguo Li , Xin Jiang , Chunjing Xu